[51] Working drawings

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Stowe, Buckinghamshire: design for library for 1st Marquis of Buckingham, 1805-6 and later unexecuted designs (80)
    - Library
      - Chimneypiece

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B57

Purpose

[51] Working drawings

Aspect

Jaumb of Chimney Piece full size, The Part tinted with Yellow shows the / part above the Chimney Piece, Line of Shelf, Bookcase, Looking Glass, Line of Brickwork / at Back of Chy ----- Line of Brickwork and (verso) Plan of chimneypiece (at base)

Scale

full size

Inscribed

as above, The Marquis of Buckingham, Gothic Library / Stowe, Jaumb of Chimney Piece full size, The Part tinted with Yellow shows the / part above the Chimney Piece, Line of Shelf, Bookcase, Looking Glass, Line of Brickwork / at Back of Chy ----- Line of Brickwork and (verso) Cornice of Chimney Piece full Size B, Jaumb of Chimney Piece, A, Line of Cornice, Bookcase

Signed and dated

23/11/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields / Nov^r 23 1805 and (verso) Lincolns Inn Fields Nov^r

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, yellow and red washes, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (642 x 523) (verso) pen and pencil

Hand

The office Day Book for 23 November 1805 gives Seward and Howe as working on Stowe, that is Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808), and 'Howe' is unknown

Notes

'Jaumb' or more commonly 'jamb' is the side of a window, door or chimney.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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